Eight Republican-led states this year left an interstate cooperative that seeks to maintain accurate voter registration rolls, and three more may join them — a move that election security experts say is fueled by conspiracy theories.
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Texas lawmakers have issued 20 articles of impeachment against state Attorney General Ken Paxton, ranging from bribery to abuse of public trust as state Republicans surged toward a swift and sudden vote that could remove him from office.
Lawmakers are tentatively not expected back at work until Tuesday, just two days from when the U.S. could start running out of cash to pay its bills.
The Florida governor is attempting to topple a man who has dominated the GOP for the last seven years.
A defiant House Speaker Kevin McCarthy says the debt ceiling standoff is “not my fault” after he sent Republican negotiators to the White House to finish out debt limit talks.
Debt talks are set to resume as President Joe Biden and House Speaker Kevin McCarthy prepare to meet in person Monday about averting an economy-wrecking federal default.
The GOP is trumpeting Daniel Penny as a Good Samaritan trying to protect others in a Democrat-led city they say is unsafe.
It is unclear when negotiations would resume, though talks could pick up again over the weekend.
He'll test whether a more optimistic vision of America's future can resonate with GOP voters who elevated partisan brawlers in recent years.
About 6 in 10 U.S. adults say they want any increase in the debt limit to be coupled with terms for reducing the federal budget deficit.
Negotiators from the White House labored Thursday over the U.S. debt limit with House Speaker Kevin McCarthy's emissaries at the Capitol.
Confidence in the Supreme Court sank to its lowest point in at least 50 years in 2022 after a ruling overturned the right to abortion and led to a flurry of state bans and other abortion restrictions.
House and Senate Republicans joined together outside the U.S. Capitol to show solidarity in talks over raising the debt ceiling. The appearanc…
Hundreds of thousands of struggling families could lose rental aid and face eviction at a time when rents remain high.
Staff-level negotiators resumed talks Saturday, and they're considering clawing back some $30 billion in unused COVID-19 funds.
Debt limit fight: Biden meeting with Congress leaders put off until next week as staff talks proceed
The White House said staff would continue to hold discussions, and the delay was billed as a sign of positive exchanges.
Migrants rushed across the border Thursday in hopes of entering the U.S. before the asylum restrictions are lifted.
Protecting a narrow, four-vote majority, Republican leaders in the House are making clear that they intend to let the legal process play out.
Trump also rejected a suggestion that he apologize to his former vice president, Mike Pence, who was targeted by the Jan. 6 mob.
On May 9, the right-wing commentator announced that he's taking his show to Twitter since the platform touts the promotion of free speech.
North Carolina lawmakers on Thursday approved and sent to the governor a ban on nearly all abortions after 12 weeks of pregnancy, down from th…
Half of Americans are losing sleep over the safety of their money in banks. A Gallup poll found that 48% of US adults are growing more anxious…
Republican politicians who buck party leadership on abortion can find themselves targets of political retaliation.
WASHINGTON — House Republicans passed sweeping legislation Wednesday that would raise the government's legal debt ceiling by $1.5 trillion in exchange for steep spending restrictions, a tactical victory for Speaker Kevin McCarthy as he challenges President Joe Biden to negotiate and prevent a catastrophic federal default this summer.
Nearly 1,000 conservatives crowded a suburban Des Moines event center for the Iowa Faith and Freedom Coalition's annual spring fundraiser.